Before CHAPTER VII. PLATONIC CANON AS APPRECIATED AND MODIFIED BY MODERN CRITICS.
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Grote, George
7.
1. Hippias I
On the Beautiful
Refutative.
2. Hippias II
On Falsehood
Refutative.
3. Ion
On the Iliad
Peirastic.
4. Menexenus
The Funeral Oration
Ethical.
8.
1. Kleitophon
The Impulsive
Ethical.
2. Republic
On Justice
Political.
3. Timæus
On Nature
Physical.
4. Kritias
The Atlantid
Ethical.
9.
1. Minos
On Law
Political.
2. Leges
On Legislation
Political.
3. Epinomis
The Night-Assembly, or the Philosopher
Political.
4. Epistolæ XIII
Ethical.
The second Table, as it here stands, is given by Diogenes Laertius, and is extracted by him probably from the work of Thrasyllus, or from the edition of Plato as published by Thrasyllus. The reader will see that each Platonic composition has a place assigned to it in two classifications — 1. The dramatic — 2. The philosophical — each in itself distinct and independent of the other, but here blended together.
Incongruity and repugnance of the two classifications.